If that's not enough time to read through your posts after making them, I don't know that 5 hours will be.Most sites I know only give you between 3 and 5 minutes, so I'd say the 20 minute adjustment should work fine.Thanks for the suggestion, Mike, and I hope that works for you and the others.Josh

This will give you an adjusted cost basis for a new build.If you get the property for anything less than the adjusted costs basis, it is like them subsidizing your contruction costs.

Any good company will stand behind a GOOD agent, been there, done that.And yes, not all policies have 80%, I kept myself from writing a couple paragraphs by saying generally, but just trying to expalin the 80% and the co-insurance basis.As an independent adjuster, I'm sure Tim has seen a wider variation of policies than I have, not all policies are the same.

The rent is governed by your lease, during the term of the lease - so they can't just raise the rent duting a valid lease (unless the lease has some clause in it that permits increases - some do allow for adjustments due to increases in taxes, insurance, utilities).The assignment of rents just means that the rents are to go to the bank, and not the landlord, in the event that the mortgage goes unpaid.

Kotlikoff says the IMF itself has quietly confirmed that the U.S. is in terrible fiscal trouble – far worse than the Washington-based lender of last resort has previously acknowledged. “The U.S. fiscal gap is huge,†the IMF asserted in a June report. “Closing the fiscal gap requires a permanent annual fiscal adjustment equal to about 14 per cent of U.S.

If you can possible adjust your price on the existing contract to where the lender says OK, that may be your best bet.

The AMT exemption amount has been adjusted (among other changes) so fewer people will be hit by it.9.

Size is way down at the bottom of the list.Appraisers will make adjustments based on size.

On a serious note, that old turd Orin Hatch (Ted Kennedy's old golf buddy) was on Fox just now talking about maybe adjusting the Obamacare bill and turn it into "something we can ALL live with"!

Might prime your seller for what lies ahed with no comps....financing may be harder to do.If the are no duplexes within a mile, move further out to three miles.If nothing, you'll need to find comprable SFDs and make adjustments to the lot size, sq ft and amenities, with the subject being less desirable than a SFD.